Learning to surf the short board requires consistent practice and patience. Surfing is a slow progressing experience. Progress requires expert practice, physical development, learning techniques, and courage. Beginners should start on a high volume soft top riding foam waves. They need to learn the exacting techniques that will be required on bigger waves and then…
Beginner surfers can begin to carve riding foam waves. First they need to master the fundamentals so they can pop up into the right posture and ride straight to the beach. Once they are riding the foam wave, they can initiate carving techniques. Carving in foam waves can be a predecessor to carving in real…
Surfers transition from foam to real waves with practice, frequent surfing, and learning techniques. Beginner surfers start with foam waves and then learn to paddle out to larger foam waves. When surfing larger foam waves feels comfortable, the surfer can begin with small real waves. The hidden element here is courage. Each step to bigger…
Selecting the right surfing short board is important to maintain the fun in surfing. The progress should come before the short board selection not selecting a short board and then hoping one gets better. Many surfers want a short board because it looks cool. However, if you can’t perform on it in the line up,…
Advanced surfing maneuvers can be executed on long or short boards but are more easily performed on short boards. They can all be learned on soft top boards. It is great to learn on a soft top board and then easier to perform on shorter boards. I start most new students over 130 pounds on…
Students often want to know how to become a short board surfer. It takes time and learning just as a person beginning to ski on a bunny hill might ask how do I ski from the top of the mountain. Beginner surfers should start with high volume soft top surf boards in near shore foam…
Progressing after surf lessons in Oceanside or anywhere is a matter of good and frequent practice. Even good surfers suffer if they don’t get into the water frequently. Frequency builds stamina and timing judgment. These are the two elements good surfers miss when not in the water. A surf lesson should teach students the fundamentals…
People taking lessons often want to learn how to catch surfing waves on short boards. It is a journey of slow patient progress requiring conditioning, practice, observing, courage, and patience. It is important that surfers have first learned all the fundamentals on soft top boards and can catch and ride real waves on soft tops…
I am asked are there short board surf lessons. It is really a good question. Lessons tend to run from teaching the basic fundamentals to beginners to advanced lessons for those who can ride shorter boards. What happens to students in between? There is a slow progression from riding foam waves on a soft top…
The timing of catching real surf waves takes practice and is worked on all your life. It starts by learning the timing of catching foam waves and progresses to catching bigger foam waves and small real waves. Timing requires judgment and judgment has to be learned. It helps to watch video and live surfers to…